Lazy Sunday Cycle is aimed at anyone and everyone who wants to ride a bicycle for fun; people who are ‘interested but a little bit concerned’ about cycling, people who just want to get out there and have a go at cycling, enthusiastic bicycle riders and people who want to cycle with other people so that they can chat. It’s aimed at young people, old people, families with children, children with stabilizers, people with fancy bikes and people with cargo bikes and people with bikes with baskets!

Thanks Rachel, I’ll be there. I’m really happy to finally find a beginner-style group in Brisbane (been looking for weeks). The speed and experience of those “lycra-suits” makes me very nervous on my commute, so it’ll be nice to feel comfortable and enjoy a relaxed ride…

Just after some more info. We, ( my wife and I), are definitely not part of the lycra set. We feel trapped in the middle. We are not into the sort of mountain biking that would leave us spitting up half a lung after a half an hour. On the other side of things, cycling around the Botanical Gardens would bore us witless after the firt few times. There must be something in between. We own mountain bikes. The opportunities we have got to do our sort of cycling seem quite limited, but where we have been able to, cycling through the country, (as with a rail trail), is very pleasurable. Are you the type of organisation that could provide us with the type of cycling we would like? By-the-way, the odd ride through the Botanical Gardens is just fine.

Hi Roman
Thank you for your email.
The Lazy Sunday Cycle rides are for anyone and everyone. We offer three rides at each ‘event’. Typically the rides are 5km, 12-15km and 20km in length. If people want to go further than 20km they can. As example the latest Sandgate event we had one groups cycle to Brighton and back, another group cycled 15km from Sandgate to Woody Point and back and another group did a long ride from Sandgate to Redcliffe return. We also join with the East BUG and Gold groups and so that offers people the opportunity to cycle 50km. People have utility bikes, tandems, mountain bikes and road bikes
Really look forward to meeting you and your wife at a Lazy Sunday Cycle
Best wishes, Rachel

Thanks for your response. Do you cycle only in the city, or do you sometimes venture further afield?

The Rail Trail offers some potential, if they can ever get it organised. We rode some of the rail trails in Victoria. They are excellent, and offer us just what we want.
Do your city rides stay on dedicated bike tracks? (A white line painted on the side of a busy road is NOT a bikeway). We do NOT ride roads.

Hi Roman
We do rides in the city and rides in the suburbs – normally one month in the city the next month in the suburbs
All our rides are on dedicated bikeways or off-road
We don’t use painted on-road bike lanes
Hope to see you at our next ride
Rachel

Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly
long comment but after I clicked submit my comment
didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Regardless,
just wanted to say great blog!